Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-27
A WORD OF EXPLANATION.
Mr.. Dodge Denies Some Malicious Reports
Circulated by His Enemies.

Circulated by His Enemies.
BRADY, TRXn May D. 1857.
To the Editor of the Gazette.
hope you will be generous enough to
allow me to answer through your widely
read and valuable paper those false re-
ports about me that were sent to you by
others to be published in your issue of
April 10 relative to my going east to beg
for drouth sufferers in Texas. We only
desire TO make brief explanation, then
let the officials of the various counties
east of where ! travelled and lectuTed,
settle that question. During the last
fifteen years | have made frequent trips
east, selling my book on mathematics, of
which | am the author. Last summer |
went east again to sell my book, and when
| WAS in the state OF Kansas an Indian
came 20 me and said he wanted to travel
with me east. Knowing that there were
thousands of people east who never
saw an Indian, l thought it would
be g means of getting large crowds
in churches and Courthouses before whom
| could show the merits of my book and
sell it, | went to he University of Ala
bama at Tuscaloosa, the University of
Georgia at Athens and others, and re-
ceived letters from all of them Of the
highest recommendation. And while |
was at the above named universities |
was reading the following dreadful and
exciting news about Texas. Everybody
seemed excited, because many Of them
had friends and relatives in this state. l
read that the Legislature of Texas had
appropriated 100000 for drouth suffer
ers, and the Governor was begging for
other donations; and that the Congress of
the United States were trying to relieve
them. Many were starving, having to
feed on the dead carcasseS of cattle that
had died themselves of starvation. l
read in Jacksonville paper, headed,
"Deplorsble Condition." piece taken
from the Fort Worth GAZETTE of January
2, that the Albany, Tex, convention
of tWenty-one county Judges stated that
there were $1,000 people now in need Of
food, clothing and fuel, and thousands
more without seed to plant, and they sp-
pealed to various sources for
100000 TO relieve their imme-
date wants. Some of their papers
also stated that great foods on the coasts
of Texas had swept away whole cities,
and Sabine Fass was really st the bottom
of the ocean. | also read long piece in
the Atlanta Constitution that fifteen miles
of Navarro county, Tex. had sunk with
ell of its Inhabitants, and the great cavity |
or gulf was burning and smoking, and !
that every living creature that inhaled the |
smoke died instantly. The people there !
we're reading and believing all the above, |
for they were ready to belive almost any
thing, for al earthquake had just shook !
them all out of their beds. Many ran
OFF to their neighbors', and
met their neighboTs half way.
Wicked men fell on their knees for the
first time to hold family prayers, others
grabbed their guns and swore they would
shoot, and did shoot. Chickens fell
.qunlling from their roosts. Dogs
lowled and COWS bawled.' Now, if
Western Texas was starving, Southern
Texas drowning, Eastern Texas sinking
Ind burning, and knowing that thousands
If Indians were on its northern border,
he average Georgia goober-grabber